A new episode of the podcast "Russian Avant-Garde: Past, Present, and Future" has been released. Dmitry Kozlov, a Research Fellow at the School of Arts and Cultural Heritage, talks about El Lissitzky.
Lazar Lissitzky was an artist, graphic artist, illustrator, photographer, typographer, exhibition designer, and architect. People like him are called titans and compared to the masters of the Renaissance. He adopted the name of the new man—El—and advanced both the technical methods of design and the symbolic subtexts of art equally far.
In Europe, he collaborated with Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Jan Tschichold, and John Heartfield, and interacted with László Moholy-Nagy, Theo van Doesburg, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and many others.
He invented Prouns and the Horizontal Skyscraper. He became a book constructor. He worked on projects for exhibitions, parks, and stadiums. A list of his achievements would take up too much space.